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#195 — The Wise Women's Council is back this October 2022 and now accepting enrollments for our Fall Cohort. This is our first-ever winter cohort! Applications close October 12, 2022 this year. Apply at startupparent.com/wwc. Over the past five years, we’ve built a leadership incubator for women navigating both business and parenting. What started as a small group circle has blossomed into an incredible program for mid-career and executive women navigating the next moves in their lives. “This is a landing place of brilliance amongst the chaotic backdrop of parenting and working,” alumni Alicia Jabbar described it. “I loved everything about the program. SKP is brilliant at holding space, providing sparks for connections, and letting go of any attachment of a plan in service of meeting the group where they are and what they are needing.” “I was surprised at how deeply I got to know these women over the course of the year,” another alumni, Lee Price said. “ I found companionship, friendship, business support, cheerleaders, and new ideas. I tell so many people now that they should join WWC!” When I built Startup Parent, I began by interviewing hundreds of women for the podcast, and then later for our leadership programs. What I heard from hundreds of women was how unbelievably lonely it was to be at the intersection of leadership and entrepreneurship AND parenting. As a mom, it felt isolating to be juggling both work and career, and finding time to meet other parents in a similar space felt next to impossible. So we set out to help these tired moms make friends. IN THIS EPISODE:

How the program is structured, and our rhythm of learning.

What we do differently than other leadership incubators.

Why people keep coming back year over year.

A sneak peek at some of the guest teachers we invite.

What our alumni are saying about the program.

If you're looking to join a supportive, expansive, brilliant group of women founders, leaders & business creatives, then check out The Wise Women's Council. We only open a few weeks each year for new members to join.⁠

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Dr. Michelle Stephens Michelle (she/her/hers) is clinician, scientist, and entrepreneur who is passionate about mitigating ACEs. She has a PhD in early childhood stress physiology from the University of California, San Francisco. She is the co-founder of Oath Care, a company that provides community-based healthcare to support new parents and reduce childhood stress. "When kids experience stress and it's not buffered by a caring adult, the adult and themselves put themselves on a worse health trajectory,” says Dr. Michelle Stephens. “...They're even multiple times more likely to die earlier, like, ten to 20 years earlier." What if the experiences we have as children shape our health outcomes later in life? Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been linked to a range of negative health outcomes, from chronic diseases to mental health issues. In this episode of the Startup Parent podcast, host Sarah K Peck talks to Dr. Michelle Stephens, co-founder of Oath Care, a community-based healthcare platform that aims to support parents during the critical time of early childhood. Michelle discusses how her experience as a clinician led her to create Oath Care, and how her team is working to address the impact of ACEs on the health of parents and children. Through a combination of virtual support and in-person care, Michelle believes that Oath Care can help families build resilience and improve health outcomes. Whether you're a parent, a clinician, or someone interested in the intersection of health and technology, this episode offers a fascinating look at the potential of community-based healthcare to transform the way we approach health and wellness. Dr. Michelle Stephens is a clinician, scientist, and entrepreneur who is passionate about mitigating ACEs. She is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner and earned her PhD in early childhood stress physiology from the University of California, San Francisco. Michelle co-founded Oathcare, a company that provides community-based healthcare to support new parents and reduce childhood stress. Her research has shown that intimate relationships with caregivers are the single most well-understood antidote to childhood stress. Through her work, Michelle is on a mission to change the healthcare system to better support maternal and child health. Where to find Michelle: Oath Care | LinkedIn | Twitter Resources: Oath Care on Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | FacebookStartup Parent | Substack | SponsorCan’t Even: How Millennials Become the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen PetersonConscious Leadership Group This episode is sponsored by WWC

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#202 — I'm a believer in ideas. I want more ideas, more insights, and more wisdom in the world. That's why my book philosophy is to buy as many of the ones that spark my intrigue as possible. Sometimes I buy them to donate them to a library. Other times I pretend I'm a book fairy, and I buy copies of books and drop them off at coffee shops to spark conversation and discovery. I buy them as gifts for friends. Here's a quick riff on why we should all buy more books.

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#201 — Why are so many mothers screaming? Jessica Grose is no stranger to the struggles of American motherhood. Mothers today are expected to be perfect across all areas of life: the sole childcare providers to their kids, devoted wives and housekeepers, goddesses of the domestic realm, and of course, completely ambitious and driven employees. Jessica Grose is an opinion writer and journalist for The New York Times, a three-time author, and a wife and mother of two. Her first nonfiction book, “Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood” is out December 6, 2022. In it, Jessica dives into the historical background of the unattainable pressures placed on mothers today. In the episode, we cover:

The concept of the “ideal mother,” and the historical roots of ideas around motherhood, from the early colonial periods through the centuries up through today.

How the work of motherhood and the ideal image of motherhood “has remained consistent” where mothers’ contributions are “insincerely praised, ignored, or actively demonized.”

The myth of the “self-sacrificing mother,” that has to put everyone before herself, and if you don’t, you are transgressing in a major way.

How the education of children used to be in the father’s realm, but then when it became part of the motherhood realm, it became even easier to blame mothers for all things gone awry, specifically the raising of children.

Tune in to this episode to hear Jessica talk about the historical background of these unattainable pressures placed on women and how mother’s today get more and more added onto their plates. 📌 SHOW NOTES Full show notes at startupparent.com/201 🤯 ARE YOU A MOM THAT NEEDS MORE SUPPORT? Shout out to Oath Care, our episode sponsor! Are you an exhausted mom trying to get decent fertility, pregnancy, or pediatric support? Oath supports mothers throughout the fertility, pregnancy, and pediatric journey by combining personalized medical advice from a wide array of experts with wisdom from fellow mothers who have been there. Get private care chat and community 24/7. Learn more about Oath Care in the Apple App Store or Google Play. https://www.oathcare.com/

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#197 — Never drink coffee! Don’t have sushi! And cats are dangerous! Getting pregnant means entering into a world of advice and fear about all the things that could potentially go wrong. But what does the data say? Are these “pregnancy rules” based on truth or myth? When economist Emily Oster got pregnant, she also got curious about the advice she was getting. Some recommendations were based on her age alone, and sometimes she found it difficult to get any answers at all. So, she started digging into the data. Eventually, Emily’s research became Expecting Better: Why Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong—and What You Really Need to Know, a book about how to make your own decisions, the things that matter most when it comes to pregnancy, and why it’s not so easy as just making blanket rules for everyone. Emily Oster is a highly-respected economist and professor at Brown University. Her research interests range from development and health economics to research design and experimental methodology. Emily’s work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the bestseller SuperFreakonomics, and FiveThirtyEight, and more. This interview originally aired in October 2019. FULL SHOW NOTES: https://startupparent.com/080 STARTUP PARENT NEWSLETTER: https://startupparent.com/newsletter THE WISE WOMEN'S COUNCIL: https://startupparent.com/wwc DAD'S GROUP: https://startupparent.com/dads

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#198 — Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietician and Nutritionist, a Certified Diabetes Educator, and the author of two best-selling books on pregnancy nutrition. Her first bestseller, Real Food for Gestational Diabetes, has helped tens of thousands of women manage the condition, and went on to influence nutrition policies internationally. Lily’s next book, Real Food for Pregnancy, became #1 in the Pregnancy and Childbirth category on Amazon. The problem with conventional policy and food guidelines for pregnant women can be summed up like this: the current recommendations for prenatal nutrition were estimates based on men’s bodies, not women’s. Early nutrition recommendations were adjusted mathematically for a smaller frame—and then modified again to account for fetal growth. This is… not great. In this interview (originally aired in 2018), Lily shares how she put these books together: she reviewed 934 studies on food and health, as well as her successful pilot programs that helped people cut gestational diabetes by half. Plus, we talk about the entrepreneurial path Lily took in her own life, how she figured out a “pieced together” childcare plan while writing her books, and why she decided to become an entrepreneur. This interview originally aired in April 2018. FULL SHOW NOTES: https://startupparent.com/043 STARTUP PARENT NEWSLETTER: https://startupparent.com/newsletter THE WISE WOMEN'S COUNCIL: https://startupparent.com/wwc DAD'S GROUP: https://startupparent.com/dads

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#199 — When we get pregnant, everybody talks about the baby. But what about the mother? Becoming a mother—even thinking about becoming one—involves complex feelings and emotions. But the “Bliss Myth” idea says that we should feel one note about becoming a parent, and that note is happiness and joy. If we don’t feel joy, and we don’t love motherhood, then are you a bad mom? No! It’s totally normal to feel a huge range of feelings, including ambivalence, anger, regret, disappointment, love, tenderness, exhaustion, frustration, and more. Having feelings, especially multiple conflicting feelings, doesn’t make you a bad mom: it makes you a human being, like the rest of us. Alexandra Sacks, MD is a reproductive psychiatrist who popularized the concept of matrescence, or the period of transition surrounding becoming a mother. Her 2018 TED Talk reached 1.5 million views worldwide, and she wrote a New York Times article called The Birth Of A Mother that was the number one most read piece of 2017 for the Well Family Section. The truth is more complicated, and Dr. Sacks says a huge range of feelings about motherhood is all totally normal. Things like panicking when you find out that you’re pregnant, or feeling ambivalent at first when you see your newborn, or having new feelings about your partner or your own parents are all absolutely reasonable feelings to have during your pregnancy and parenting journeys. In this episode, we talk to one of America’s top reproductive psychiatrists about the range of emotions and feelings that come with motherhood, and why matrescence is totally natural and normal. In this episode we talk about:

Matrescence as an extended phase of all women’s lives, including women who choose not to have children or who experience infertility, and Dr. Sacks focused work on the period of pregnancy and the first year of motherhood.

The Bliss Myth and other honest stories we’re missing about motherhood.

The harmful trope of the “bad mother” as the cornerstone of evil characters in myth and popular culture.

The idea of the “Good Enough Mother” as permission and guiding light for mother’s overwhelmed by messages of perfection; that we should aim for not superhuman perfection but providing a safe, stable, loving childhood.

How being a “perfect” mother can actually harm our children in the long term, leading to decreased resiliency, slowing the learning process, and interfering with children’s ability to grow and achieve independence.

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://startupparent.com/110 STARTUP PARENT NEWSLETTER: https://startupparent.com/newsletter THE WISE WOMEN'S COUNCIL: https://startupparent.com/wwc

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#204 — Marisa Renee Lee is the author of Grief is Love: Living with Loss, a book that guides readers through the pain of loss and offers a unique perspective on what healing truly means. A former appointee in the Obama White House, Marisa has served in various leadership roles, including Deputy Director of Private Sector Engagement and Senior Advisor on the Domestic Policy Council. She is also the CEO of Beacon Advisors, a social impact consulting firm, and the founder of the Pink Agenda, a national organization dedicated to raising money for breast cancer research and awareness. With her expertise in grief and loss, Marisa is a sought-after speaker and contributor to various media outlets, including Glamour, Vogue, MSNBC, and The Atlantic. She lives with her husband, son, and dog in the United States. SHOW NOTES Full show notes at startupparent.com/204 SHOUT OUT TO OATH CARE, OUR EPISODE SPONSOR: Are you an exhausted mom trying to get decent fertility, pregnancy, or pediatric support? Oath supports mothers throughout the fertility, pregnancy, and pediatric journey by combining personalized medical advice from a wide array of experts with wisdom from fellow mothers who have been there. Get private care chat and community 24/7.  Learn more about Oath Care in the Apple App Store or Google Play. https://www.oathcare.com/

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The First Year of Parenting: What I Wish I’d Known — Vanessa Van Edwards

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Writing About Your Family on Twitter: Where’s the Line? — Comedic Writer James Breakwell, aka Xploding Unicorn

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What We Went Through (with co-host Cary Fortin)

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Startup Parent: The Name Change

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The Wise Women's Council 2021

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Dr. Shani Cooper: Pregnancy, Birth, and Private Practice in 2020

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Jess Kamada: Company Growth & Challenges While Pregnant and Parenting in a Pandemic

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2020 Reflections: What A Year

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Raising Them: Gender Creative Parenting — Dr. Kyl Myers